There is other research that indicates effective leadership, not management, bridge the community and the classroom. The key is the combined leadership of teachers and principals. When we use economic measures, we measure inputs and outputs. What about listening to stories from the front lines?

It has always come down to the strength of leadership on many levels with a clear vision with management to attain and implement those goals. It also requires time with steady progression to achieve that level of success.

Think about how you or the people you work with approach the creation of a blended learning lesson plan. The first steps of coming up with and flushing out your initial idea. Then, scouring the web to find safe, factually accurate sites that are not blocked by your school filters and checking the fine print …

This method of teaching does require a certain amount of bravery. There is a very real chance that when a student asks you a question (How do I add media? How do I change the font? How do I import pictures? etc. etc.) you will have to say the dreaded “I don’t know”. But the neat thing is, your students are ok with this. You’re all learning as you go. More often than not another child in the class will be using the same site or will have at least used it before. If a classmate knows the answer, they can step into the role of teacher – from which much confidence is gained and leadership skills are learned.

Even the most reserved kid really enjoys teaching their teacher a trick or two. If no one knows the answer, they can collaborate to find the solution; an activity that provides important life skills with many real-world applications. All while leaving the initiative, process development and ownership of the learning itself right where it belongs, in the hands of the learners.

Gust MEES: I started with it in 2002 already and was a pioneer in my country, BUT I got BEST results! Make sure to work TOGETHER as a TEAM with the students, learners, create ALSO some groups where the BEST work together with the weakest. YOU will love it later and YOU will miss it as it gives YOU a direct feedback of WHAT THEY learned and YOU adjust on demand and necessity... WHEN the BEST feel boring, give THEM a special task to motivate THEM ;) ===> Adjust <===.

I am not sure what is being suggested is putting students in charge. It is more about a complicated conversation between teachers and students about the subject matter. There is an in-between space where teachers and students meet.

I am not sure what is being suggested is putting students in charge. It is more about a complicated conversation between teachers and students about the subject matter. There is an in-between space where teachers and students meet.

Leadership and Systems Thinking - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This article examines the role of systems thinking and suggests how it might be of use to those who seek to influence organizations.

The underlying message is that we cannot solve problems in simple ways in one part of a complex system without unintended consequences in other parts of the system. For that matter, these unintended consequences may crop up where we make the changes. It is even more complex in systems involving people where relationships, not things, are the predominate characteristic of the system.

Leadership and Systems Thinking - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This article examines the role of systems thinking and suggests how it might be of use to those who seek to influence organizations.

Drawing parallels between the structure of human societies and ecosystems has to be done with care. Nature provides animals and plants with ways to balance themselves. It is innate. Humans have free will and choose to consume and hoard in unequal ways. One would think in an enlightened world we might have got past this.

The career advice we receive changes as we age. As children, we’re encouraged to dream big about the things we want to accomplish in life. We grow up thinking we’ll do what we love. As we become adults, the message starts to focus on how we can be successful. We begin to look at the subjects in which we excel in school. Grades become the measuring stick of our future. Most of all, we’re told to be practical, find a good job, and stay there.

Ivon Prefontaine, PhD's insight:

The third tip is good, until surveillance is mentioned. Do embrace your history, aspirations, and who you you are. Question what that means and be skeptical of the taken-for-granted, but do so with self-compasion.

I like separating of success and growth. They are not the same. John Dewey and Hans-Georg Gadamer concluded growth is about forming and growing for more growth.

I use a stream-of-consciousness writing process (method of currere) to explore what lies beneath the surface. It fits nicely with my use of hermeneutic phenomenology which is unwieldy.

I was reminded recently that history in the curriculum is a particularly contentious subject. A friend, involved in rewriting the history curriculum in Croatia, said the publication of a new curriculum resulted in thousands of people protesting on the streets. I can think

For over a century, the two leading theories in physics have had irreconcilable differences, and scientists have scrambled to find ways to square them, to no avail. An experiment proposed in 1957 by American luminary Richard Feynman, is now getting a makeover, and the results could be significant.

Scientists at Oxford University and University College London (UCL), are attempting to overhaul one of the late Nobel Laurette’s experiments and in doing so, hope to heal the rift in a dramatic fashion. Could a Theory of Everything be near? This would be incorporating all four physical forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces, into one solid working theory.

Thus far, theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg, himself a Nobel Laurette, has only been able to combine electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force. A final theory—as Weinberg calls it, would mark the end of physics as we know it. Although the laws of general relativity and quantum mechanics work exceptionally well in their own spheres, some of the rules that govern one area don’t work in the other, and vice-versa. For instance, Relativity explains the gravitational force as it relates to bodies on Earth or in space. But it falls apart on the quantum level.

Reminds me of an F. Scott Fitzgerald line that I often reflect on -. "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

The origin of population-scale coordination has puzzled philosophers and scientists for centuries. Recently, game theory, evolutionary approaches and complex systems science have provided quantitative insights on the mechanisms of social consensus. However, the literature is vast and scattered widely across fields, making it hard for the single researcher to navigate it. This short review aims to provide a compact overview of the main dimensions over which the debate has unfolded and to discuss some representative examples. It focuses on those situations in which consensus emerges 'spontaneously' in absence of centralised institutions and covers topic that include the macroscopic consequences of the different microscopic rules of behavioural contagion, the role of social networks, and the mechanisms that prevent the formation of a consensus or alter it after it has emerged. Special attention is devoted to the recent wave of experiments on the emergence of consensus in social systems.

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